Abstract:We present a Safe Active Learning (SAL) framework for autonomous reliability characterization of rectifying Ga$_2$O$_3$-based devices under coupled thermal and hydrogen stress. SAL treats rectification as a device-physics-motivated safety observable and models its evolution over elapsed time, temperature, and H$_2$ concentration using a Gaussian-process surrogate. To handle condition-dependent and uncertain experiment durations, the method combines an adaptive completion-time window, time-window lower-confidence-bound safety checks, a trust region anchored to previously verified safe conditions, and a two-phase strategy that transitions from conservative safe exploration to progressively relaxed rectification targets as the device degrades. We first evaluate SAL in simulation, where it safely expands the explored region while learning the evolving rectification surface. We then demonstrate SAL experimentally on an automated high-temperature probe-station platform using a Pt/Cr$_2$O$_3$:Mg/$\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ device. In the reported campaign, phase 1 incurred only one unsafe measurement associated with spurious current-voltage sweeps, while phase 2 intentionally probed lower-rectification regimes. Finally, we use the curated SAL dataset for offline long-horizon forecasting of device response at a target voltage using a structured Gaussian-process model with a condition-dependent Kohlrausch--Williams--Watts mean and a residual covariance kernel. The model captures long-time, saturating degradation trends in an auxiliary validation dataset, illustrating how safety-aware autonomous experimentation enables both conservative characterization and subsequent degradation modeling. Although demonstrated for a rectifying Ga$_2$O$_3$ device, SAL is applicable to other systems where a measurable in situ safety observable can be defined.
| Subjects: | Applied Physics (physics.app-ph); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Systems and Control (eess.SY) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2605.00868 [physics.app-ph] |
| (or arXiv:2605.00868v1 [physics.app-ph] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.00868 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite |
From: Davi Febba [view email]
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